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by spac 7y ago
“The fund has been closed to outside investors since 1993 and is available only to current and past employees and their families. “ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
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Ask HN: What's your AI failure story?
7 points by spac 7y ago|2 comments
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by spac 7y ago
Epistemic AI | VP Engineering | Remote (US Only) or New York | VISA | Full Time At Epistemic AI we are building the next generation of tools to accelerate biomedical research with AI and NLP. We are a group of world-renown scientists and en
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by spac 7y ago
... but probably opening many new ones, unless one has a really strong security team in place.
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by spac 7y ago
Epistemic AI | Multiple Roles | New York or REMOTE | VISA | Full Time At Epistemic AI we are building the next generation of tools to accelerate biomedical research with AI and NLP. We are a group of world-renown scientists and engineers fr
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by spac 7y ago
I am genuinely interested in an elaboration: what is the direct implication of what you are saying? 1. That chronic lyme disease does not exist? 2. That chronic lyme disease and can be diagnosed very reliably 3. Other (please elaborate fur
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by spac 7y ago
For a while, in NYC at least, they tried the courier model, but that was a few years ago. Not really sure why it did not continue.
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The coming deepfakes threat to businesses(axios.com)
2 points by spac 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What Payroll/Benefit provider do you use?
1 points by spac 7y ago|0 comments
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by spac 7y ago
The article is from 2014 and should be marked as such. Can the mods do that?
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by spac 7y ago
For those who care the app is here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.proofusion...
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A hotspot finder app exposed 2M Wi-Fi network passwords(techcrunch.com)
2 points by spac 7y ago|1 comments
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Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about face recognition(ft.com)
1 points by spac 7y ago|0 comments
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by spac 7y ago
Can you elaborate on how you configured? What hardware are you using?
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by spac 8y ago
From the article: “Perhaps the most worrying finding in the report is the threat of a feedback loop between severe weather events and carbon emissions. According to the IEA, a hotter-than-average summer and colder-than-average winter led to
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Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018(economist.com)
80 points by spac 8y ago|113 comments
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by spac 8y ago
I find that one potential source of confusion is in the definition of “seed round” . How many companies actually go from no capital raised to a $2M institutional round vs. how many raise a so-called “pre-seed” or “angel” round before the in
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Why beating your phone addiction may come at a cost(theguardian.com)
3 points by spac 8y ago|0 comments
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by spac 8y ago
On my opinion there is no comparison with the dominance MS in the OS market and Apple, I think Apple’ market share is very far from the 90+% windows enjoyed
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by spac 8y ago
This article made me think immediately of the mythical month man. From my rather uninformed perspective - I never tried hiring in India - it would be very hard to actually screen and select well, while quantity alone is not necessarily a go
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by spac 8y ago
where is the 80% figure coming from in the parent comment?
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by spac 8y ago
Contrarily to the negative sentiment expressed so far in the comments, I find branding an important question: If a foundation does good work, you’d want the foundation to receive more money to do more good work. For example, Wikipedia woul
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Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments(gizmodo.com)
282 points by spac 8y ago|72 comments
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by spac 8y ago
Normal members can participate to the election too, according the website. The differences between regular and associate member are 1) the associate’s name and address is not publicly inspecatble, while the regular member’s is; 2) Associat
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by spac 8y ago
What other benefits do you experience from sharing that information? The traffic alerts was one, but could you elaborate on the others?
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by spac 8y ago
> As you said, there's no free lunch, but everyone is different and most people have decided that the benefits still outweigh the negatives. There is an argument to be made most people may have made those decisions without fully und
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by spac 8y ago
But you do have the option to purchase phones running operating systems that implement tighter and more credible controls. I believe that companies understand nothing better that consumer dollars.
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by spac 8y ago
Bloomberg News is not a newspaper. The company makes money from selling terminals not news (although the terminal contains news, but it's easy to see that sensationalism is not what the customers pay for).
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by spac 8y ago
Bloomberg makes money (a lot of!) from selling terminals, not news. There is literally no point in losing credibility on a story like this. Credible third-party information is the core of the business model and the news department takes tha
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by spac 8y ago
Keep in mind that you don’t train and run the system only once during development. How many resources were used just for hyperparameter optimization?

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